UNLV Game Thoughts

[cyclone1209]

Offense

• Brock Purdy got his "get right" game we had all been screaming for. 21-24 is a video game line with almost 300 yds, 3 td's. He had the fearless look about him again, which is what we need the rest of the year to get back to Dallas. He plays that well the next couple weeks and we will be 4-1.
• Breece - nothing spectacular but a solid outing, he was extremely close to breaking a long one. Good game.
• Xavier Hutchinson - star of the offense imo, 2 td's for 130 yds. He's an nfl receiver next season.
• O line - Simmons and Newell and the tackles brought more attitude today and it showed. Their D was brutal so they needed today to gel a bit more
• Deon Silas - dude is actually bigger than I thought, he has some serious muscle on him already. Explosive through the hole. Interesting running back and I thought Aaron Taylor made a good comparison in comparing him to Jaquiizz Rogers of Oregon St, they look extremely similar. Shifty, short, and strong.
• Dekkers was not great tonight but he was in mop up duty and didn't need to be great. He's a good runner and hard to bring down.

Defense

• What can we say that hasn't been said? We have studs at every level of the D. Will McDonald if you added up sacks and holding penalties garnered, has to be leading the nation by a huge margin.
• 19 Kymmani King - my surprise player of the D. He plays like Isheem and i think he's actually faster. When he hits people go down abruptly. Exciting talent.
• Isheem was a beast today
• Beau Freiler looks like a future stud at safety
• We have good young guys on the line like Blake Peterson and JR Singleton
• The corners don't give up big plays
• Aric Horne LB plays with an attitude and i love his play
• Gerry Vaughn LB is much better than I ever knew. Smaller than Vance but he runs the field really well, had a couple tackles for loss early on

ST

• I cannot believe i'm writing this at this moment. Punt returns! Jaylin Noel was close to breaking one, got a couple 5 yd returns.
• Mevis' 54 yard kick was a freaking beauty. That's an nfl level kick folks

 

[cyfanatic13]

Our defense is legitimate one of the best in the country and the future looks very bright on that side of the ball despite who we lose after this year.

Offensively, Breece is a stud but I think it's best for the offense as a whole to get Brock/Sanders/Silas all a couple touches. Hutchinson is NFL talent IMO, and it was good to see Kolar get back in the groove a little bit. We need one more WR to step up to have this offense be what it could be, whether that's Scates or Noel or whoever, that would bring us to the next level

 

[CyArob]

Datrone Young didn't play, correct?

 

[AppleCornCy]

We needed this game but I think UNLV is the worst team we’ve played in a long time. Louisiana-Monroe a couple years ago was better.

Edit: I’m going to say worst team since Western Illinois in 2012.

 

[cyclone1209]

Datrone Young didn't play, correct?

I guess he did not. Tampa filled in pretty well I would say.

 

[Remo Gaggi]

Good summary. I’m ready to head back to Iowa.

 

[JP4CY]

Defense was spectacular. The score could have even much worse actually.

 

[inCyteful]

Deon Silas is a human bullet. He is going to be a blast to watch.

I think most of UNLVs offensive line will need extensive counseling this week.

Great to see Shaw play and make a grab.

Did anyone see Purchase destroy the return guy. Want to see him and Isheem play together

My bank account, liver and Dog say time to go home

 

[CloneIce]

I guess he did not. Tampa filled in pretty well I would say.

Miles Purchase looked great too.

 

[demoncore1031]

I hope Sanders is the starting KR and Noel starts at PR for the rest of the year. WR's other than Hutch do need to step up and play better, as someone else had mentioned. The D is now giving up just 49.3 rushing yards per game, at 1.5 yards per carry! Those are insane numbers.

 

[inCyteful]

Oh, and what a douche move by UNLV to call 2 timeouts in first half down by 3 scores to try and ice the kicker. Really, was that your game winning strategy?

 

[bradcyclone]

Anyone noticed the stadium has a CC closed captioning I guess it shows what the announcer mention and it botched the score as Iowa State Furniture UNLV 3, LOL !

 

[acoustimac]

The only concern I had was the level of futility the offensive line had from the one. We just couldn’t gain an easy yard.

 

[Jayshellberg]

Deon Silas is a human bullet. He is going to be a blast to watch.

I think most of UNLVs offensive line will need extensive counseling this week.

Great to see Shaw play and make a grab.

Did anyone see Purchase destroy the return guy. Want to see him and Isheem play together

My bank account, liver and Dog say time to go home

Purchase’s hit on the kickoff return was one of the hardest hits I have seen this year.

 

[burn587]

My biggest takeaway was the ISU fan in section 117 roughly row 24 or 25 that wouldn’t shut the hell up clearly never heard the saying that “fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.” Otherwise fun atmosphere, hell of a venue.

 

[SoapyCy]

My biggest takeaway was the ISU fan in section 117 roughly row 24 or 25 that wouldn’t shut the hell up clearly never heard the saying that “fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.” Otherwise fun atmosphere, hell of a venue.

I was near this and didn't hear the offender. I heard the first down calls, but not a fat drunk guy.

 

[Acylum]

My biggest takeaway was the ISU fan in section 117 roughly row 24 or 25 that wouldn’t shut the hell up clearly never heard the saying that “fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.” Otherwise fun atmosphere, hell of a venue.

I was near this and didn't hear the offender. I heard the first down calls, but not a fat drunk guy.

Think we found the fat, drunk guy.

 

[cyfanatic13]

Think we found the fat, drunk guy.

Nah he wasn’t drunk

 

[nfrine]

Nah he wasn’t drunk

Two out of three ain't bad...

 

[Daserop]

UNLV is terrible.